89: Playtime That Went Too Far - July 28 2019 - Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7 • 723 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Keep up with current episodes of Morning Cup of Murder at morningcupofmurder.com The saying goes “boys will be boys”. As a mother of a little boy, it’s a mantra I’ve heard over and over, though I can’t say that I agree. Boys will be rough, they will make decisions that we can’t understand, and sometimes those decisions will hurt someone. On July 28th 1999 a boy would get rough with a little girl and it would change the course of his life forever. Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow us on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer The show is produced and edited by Dillon Biemesderfer IG: @dungeonsanddillons Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There were two more murders, 15 miles away.
0:02.6	The only survived by telephones and electricity lines.
0:05.4	The weird is described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion.
0:09.5	The saying goes, boys will be boys.
0:14.6	As a mother of a little boy, it's a mantra I've heard over and over, though I can't say that I agree.
0:20.6	Boys will be rough, they will make decisions
0:22.7	that we can't understand, and sometimes those decisions will hurt others. On July 28, 1999,
0:30.5	a boy would get rough with a little girl, and it would change the course of his life forever.
0:35.5	So, if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a
0:40.4	morning cup of murder.
0:46.1	On July 28th, Lionel Alexander Tate was left alone with six-year-old Tiffany Unick in his mother's
0:52.5	home.
0:53.8	Kathleen Grosett Tate was the girl's babysitter and her 12-year-old Tiffany Unick in his mother's home. Kathleen Grosett-Tate was the girl's babysitter, and her 12-year-old son would sometimes help
0:58.9	entertain the kids.
1:00.9	The children were down in the basement playing loudly when Kathleen called down for them to be
1:05.4	quiet.
1:07.0	About 45 minutes later, her son came upstairs to tell her that Tiffany wasn't breathing.
1:12.6	Lionel was obsessed with WWE Smackdown and had decided to practice his moves with the six-year-old girl.
1:21.6	According to the boy who outweighed Tiffany by 122 pounds, they were wrestling when he put her in a headlock, and the child's
1:29.7	head hit a table. Tiffany was dead. When the police came to arrest the boy, he protested that all
1:36.5	he'd done was give Tiffany a bear hug. An autopsy was done and the coroner's findings did not match
1:42.5	Lionel's story of how play wrestling got out of hand.
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